Your Food Journal 4+

I love the simplicity of the app. There is nothing overwhelming that would cause you to spend more time than needed in the App. This is important because if you’ve struggled with your relationship with food, there are not too many things that could steer you to a dark place. Simply take a picture and assess the food groups you’ve eaten. While I wish there was one for dessert, I use the “other” category in its place. Premium is affordable and I hope with updates it doesn’t become overwhelming like some of the others. The journal is very basic to write your thoughts for the day.

I love the simplicity of it. It’s been helping me eat more regularly, consistently, and balanced through a difficult schedule and lots of anxiety. If it were a one time purchase I’d have bought it very quickly. I don’t like subscription models. So I haven’t. But then I found that you can’t even view your historical entries without a subscription. So that made it in that you pretty much have go buy the paid version. Which IMO is kind of a sleazy way to sell it to you. Sigh. I’m probably going to do it because it’s the best I’ve found for simplicity but yeah would expect more from a paid version.

The only actual change I would make is the ability to track numbers of the food groups. Eg, checking “carb” is helpful from the sense of evaluating, but as I get going I’m going to need to think okay, this was 2 servings of carbs and I’ve only had one serving of protein. I think you could get around that by entering every unit in separately…I will try. For example, if I put in spaghetti and check carb, that doesn’t give me an idea of how much carb.

I had a problem with the signup page. It was buggy, but after a while I came back and it fixed itself? Not sure what happened, but I got to use the app now.

I have a few suggestions already:

- Add fiber to the food groups.

- Add dessert to the meal types.

- Add a quantification feature for each food group when you log a meal. So that you can visualize if your meal is mostly carbs, or protein, or veggies, etc. Maybe a slide-able pie chart using the selected food groups. Doesn’t have to be exact, just a visualization.

- Customize daily water intake goal. (Change the default 64oz.)

- Set drink water reminder notifications aside from meal notifications.

- Customize the times of the meal reminders.

-Consider offering a lifetime deal.

This app has great potential! Please keep working on it! So many people are in need of a quick and easy way to log their food without it being mentally draining or harmful. I can see this being a safe place to keep track of things. In a way, having limited features is kinda freeing. Saves you from fiddling too much with it because you can’t. I ramble, lol. Looking forward to future updates!